In a November 15, 2002 article on his website, Rush Limbaugh talked about how impressed he and his wife were with Tom DeLay's devotion to foster care reform:

"They call Tom DeLay "The Hammer," but do you know what he talked with Marta and [me] about the other night? Ninety percent of the table conversation [at the dinner for newly minted Congressmen] was about foster kids and all the [orphanages] around the country he is trying to set up. That's his charity. He knows what matters to the nation he serves -- and it's not winning a few House races."